Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (61 page)

28
Channel 4 News
, March 9, 2004.

29
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programs/conspiracy_files/6378681.stm
.

30
Baker, 17.

31
Ibid., 21.

32
Ibid., 22.

33
Ibid., 19.

34
Ibid., 20.

35
Ibid.

36
Ibid.

37
Ibid., 58.

38
Ibid., 27.

39
Ibid., 41.

40
Ibid., 43.

41
Ibid., 46.

42
Ibid., 47.

43
Ibid., 53.

44
Ibid., 66.

45
Ibid., 52.

46
Ibid., 307.

47
Ibid., xiii.

48
Ibid.

49
A. Jay Cristol,
The Liberty Incident
, 2002.

50
According to its synopsis, the book
Who Killed Diana?
(cowritten with Derek McAdam) “casts doubt on the assumption that the driver was three times over the legal limit. It assembles the evidence that Diana and Dodi had become a threat to the British Establishment. It shows who might have intervened in the most brutal fashion, examining their motives and how an assassination could have been carried out.”

51
Peter Hounam,
Operation Cyanide
, 3.

52
Baker, 96-97.

53
Ibid., 98.

54
Ibid., 110.

55
Ibid., 60.

56
Ibid., 50.

57
Ibid., 49.

58
Ibid., 302-3.

59
Ibid., 333.

60
Ibid., 345.

61
http://www.prisonplanet.com/022504shrimptontranscript.html
.

62
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programs/if/transcripts/david_kelly.txt
.

63
Baker, 348.

64
Ibid.

65
Melanie Phillips, “The ‘Facts’ About David Kelly’s Death Just Don’t Add Up. This Was Murder,”
Daily Mail
, February 28, 2007.

66
Fritz Tobias,
The Reichstag Fire: Legend and Truth
, 16.

9. “I Want My Country Back!”

1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1nmn2zRMc&feature=related
.

2
www.publicpolicypolling.com
.

3
AIM press release, August 4, 2009.

4
http://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/Obama_birth_certificate/2009/08/05/244380.html
.

5
A good example of the Corsi defense can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8foOU6n9S4
.

6
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7741
.

7
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30762
.

8
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56626
.

9
For a sympathetic but revealing portrait of Farah as editor of the
Union
, see Tom Bethell, “Fighting for the Union,”
National Review
,
September 9, 1991.

10
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 1997)
,
xii.

11
Ibid.

12
Ibid., xiii-xiv.

13
Ibid., xiii.

14
Ibid.

15
David Brock,
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
(New York: Crown, 2002), 204.

16
Ibid., 204-5.

17
Evans-Pritchard,
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton,
xv.

18
Gore Vidal, “The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh,”
Vanity Fair
, September 2001.

19
Evans-Pritchard,
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
, 5.

20
Ibid., 94.

21
Ibid., 268-69.

22
Ibid., 238.

23
Ibid., 243.

24
Ibid., 248.

25
Ibid., 251.

26
WND website, September 24, 1998.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14583
.

27
Moldea’s book, published in 1998, was
A Washington Tragedy: How the Death of Vincent Foster Ignited a Political Firestorm
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 1998)
.

28
Evans-Pritchard,
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
, 226.

29
Christopher Ruddy,
The Strange Death of Vince Foster: An Investigation
(New York: Free Press, 1997), 249-50.

30
Moldea,
A Washington Tragedy
, 14.

31
“First Lady Launches Counterattack,”
Washington Post
, January 28, 1998.

32
Joe Conason and Gene Lyons,
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton
(London: Channel 4 Books, 2001), 371.

33
See the account in “Arkansas Project Led to Turmoil and Rift,”
Washington Post
, May 2, 1999.

34
Lori Leibovich, “Why Vincent Foster Can’t Rest in Peace,
Salon,
May 28, 1998.

35
Sidney Blumenthal,
The Clinton Wars
(London: Penguin, 2004), 72.

36
“When an Aide Dies Violently,”
New York Times
, August 2, 1993.

37
“The 28th Piece,”
New York Times, August 12, 1993.

38
Gary Aldrich,
Unlimited Access
:
An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 1996), 30, 93.

39
Evans-Pritchard,
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
, 366.

40
Cass R. Sunstein,
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 7.

Conclusion: Bedtime Story

1
Guardian
, September 5, 2006.

2
Shane O’Sullivan, “Did the CIA Kill Bobby Kennedy?”
Guardian
, November 20, 2006.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay-The_BBCs_Flawed_RFK_Story
.

6
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13105
.

7
Mel Ayton, “Still Guilty After All These Years,”
http://www.washingtondecoded.com
, May 11, 2008.

8
Private letter to author.

9
Jonathan Raban, “Running Scared,”
Guardian
, July 21, 2004.

10
Stephen Eric Bronner,
A Rumor About the Jews
, 142.

11
Richard Hofstadter,
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
, 34.

12
Ibid., 31-32.

13
Derek Kaill, “Beyond 9/11,”
New Humanist
, April 4, 2005.

14
Guardian
, May 11, 2005.

15
Guardian
, February 20, 2007.

16
Sam Smith, “America’s Extremist Center,”
Progressive Review
, July 1995.

17
Real Time with Bill Maher
, HBO, October 21, 2006.

18
New York Times
, August 21, 2006.

19
Letter from Farah Jasmine Griffin,
New York Times
, August 22, 2006.

20
Peter Knight,
Conspiracy Culture
, 3.

21
Mark Fenster,
Conspiracy Theories
, 67-74.

22
Jodi Dean,
Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace
, cited by Frederick C. Crews, “The Mindsnatchers,”
New York Review of Books
, June 25, 1998.

23
Damian Thompson,
Counter-Knowledge
, 10-11.

24
Ibid., 23.

25
Mark Fenster, interview with Chip Berlet for
New Internationalist
supplement on Judeophobia, September 2004.

26
Timothy Melley, “Agency Panic and the Culture of Conspiracy,” in Peter Knight, ed.,
Conspiracy Nation
, 73-74.

27
Robin Ramsay,
Conspiracy Theories
, 92.

28
Ibid., 85.

29
Ibid., 64.

30
Knight, 13.

31
Hofstadter, 3.

32
Ibid., 39.

33
Ibid., 4.

34
Elaine Showalter,
Hystories
:
Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
, 4.

35
Ibid., 5.

36
Ibid., 10.

37
Knight, 7.

38
Showalter, 207.

39
Ibid., 6.

40
David Mamet,
Three Uses of the Knife
, 1.

41
Ibid., 7.

42
Lewis Wolpert,
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
, 27.

43
Ibid., 29.

44
Ibid., 99.

45
Norman Cohn,
The Pursuit of the Millennium
, 309-10.

46
Lobster
, June 29, 1995.

47
Stephen Grosz, conversations with the author.

48
Stephen E. Ambrose, “Writers on the Grassy Knoll,”
New York Times Book Review
, February 2, 1992.

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